Web applications can come with a long list of visualization requirements for structured data. By delivering your output through the BIRT Interactive Viewer, you can create a single BIRT design that meets multiple requirements. more
The Chinese cyber attack on Google and 30 other high-profile targets raises huge issues about how -- or whether -- tech firms should continue to do business inside the Great Wall... more
Google's Nexus One phone and Apple's (alleged) iSlate tablet are merely the beginning of a long battle for world domination. May the more innovative company win... more
The search giant's 'experimental' Fast Flip interface is supposed to breathe new life into ailing publications. Cringely isn't exactly flipping over it
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Where does free speech end and libel begin? It's not an easy question to answer, says the attorney for the now-infamous 'Skanks in NYC' blogger... more
Google is at the heart of another Net anonymity battle, this one between muckraking journalists and a Caribbean land developer. Will the search giant roll over and crush the little guys? ... more
Have a supermodel and a bitchy blogger just killed anonymity on the Internet? Is Google partly to blame? And does Cringely really hate women? Readers share their thoughts... more
Model Liskula Cohen has forced Google to hand over the name of an anonymous blogger who defamed her. Is this the end of free speech on the Net?... more
After years of cooperating, the two Silicon Valley titans are suddenly at each other's throats. Cringely wonders how much of this conflict is real and how much is for show... more
The looooong-rumored news has finally come to pass, but will the Chrome OS make a dent in Microsoft's dominance or will it be another geeks-only thing?... more
Bing's debut has been more successful than nearly anyone expected, but it's a long way from causing Google to tremble in its boots -- despite what some tabloid newspapers might claim... more